Resumé

Professional Affiliations

  • Professional Engineers & Geoscientist of B.C.

  • National Association of Corrosion Engineers

  • Chair of NACE sub-committee TEG 115X “Sulfuric Acid – Materials and Experiences”

  • Chair of NACE sub-committee TEG 509X “Materials Selection and Corrosion Control in the Mineral Processing Industries”

Work Experience

April 2007- Present: SJC Materials Engineering Ltd.

Provide corrosion and materials engineering consulting services to industrial clients including chemical processing, mining and mineral processing – including Copper, Nickel, Uranium, Gold and Rare Earth operations – ,pulp & paper, pharmaceutical, fine chemicals, oil & gas, bio-energy and civilian submarines.

Services provided to clients include:

  • Materials selection for specific chemical processes and conditions

  • On-site corrosion and materials engineering support

  • Failure analysis

  • Materials and fabrication specification writing

  • Fabricator qualification

  • Corrosion testing

  • Assistance with litigation issues

Current clients include major mining and pulp& paper companies, petrochemicals operations and chemical process technology companies. A client list and references can be supplied on request.

Minerals processing projects include:

  • MMB, Santa Rosalia, Mexico – Materials selection for acidic, saline processing of multi-metal (copper, cobalt, manganese) ore

  • FMI, Bagdad – Materials selection and specification for copper floatation and leach systems

  • Vale Inco, Goro – Sulfuric acid plant rebuild support and materials selection for expansion of processes at site

  • FMI, Tenke – Materials selection for SO2 production and SO2 leach systems

  • Fortune Minerals, Nico – Materials selection for autoclave leaching system

  • Marcobre, Peru – Materials Selection for seawater processing of copper ore

  • Barrick, Goldstrike – Materials Selection for thiosulfate leaching of gold ore

  • Confidential client, Asia – Materials selection and specification subsequent to replace equipment after plant failure in mixed acids leach of bismuth

  • Hecla Mining, Juneau – Materials selection for copper/silver leach and floatation plant

January 2001 – March 2007: Aker Kvaerner Chemetics (now Chemetics – A Jacobs Company), Vancouver Canada

In-house materials consultant for all of Chemetics chemical process technologies: sulfuric acid production, waste acid re-concentration, chlorate production, integrated chlorine dioxide, chlor-alkali, SRS and chlorate electrolyzer technology as well as pulp and paper technologies. Responsibilities included:

  • Materials selection.

  • Writing of all materials-related specifications including: coatings, FRP, thermoplastics, alloy steels, stainless steels and nickel base alloys and reactive alloys (titanium, zirconium, tantalum), welding, fabrication, specification for a proprietary blister-free cathode steel.

  • Materials selection for specific chemical processes based on a fundamental understanding of the materials properties.

  • Failure analysis.

  • Running a laboratory corrosion test program to advance the understanding of materials specific to Chemetics processes, thereby reducing costs and improving safety and reliability.

  • Assisted with materials problems during plant startup and commissioning at many chemical plants around the world.

  • Advising customers during plant shutdowns at many locations around the world.

  • Materials consultant for other Aker Kvaerner/Aker Solutions offices around the world on many issues, ranging from Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) systems to corrosion at mineral processing sites.

At Chemetics I worked on a wide range of projects for many customers, both from the home office and at the customer’s site as well at sub-vendors facilities. These include: Asia Pulp and Paper (Jilin, China), Formosa Plastics (Taiwan), BHP (Ravensthorpe, Australia), Inco (Sudbury), Southern Peru Copper (Ilo, Peru), Kazakhmys Corp. (Balkhash, Kazakhstan), Lucite (Memphis, TN), PPG (Lake Charles, LA), Canexus (N. Vancouver and Brandon MB), GE Plastics (Mount Vernon IN), Air Products (TX), Carter Holt Harvey (NZ), Codelco (Chile), Exxon Mobil (Singapore), Powerspan, Thai Copper (Rayong Thailand), GE-Toshiba Silicones(Rayong Thailand), BASF (Freeport TX), Braskem (Brazil).

1991- 2001: Research Engineer, Paprican (Now FP Innovations), Vancouver, Canada.

  • Conducted corrosion research experimental program with the aim of reducing costs and increasing safety and reliability as well as working with process engineering groups to optimize materials of construction for equipment in new processes.

  • Extensive consultation with and visits to member company plant sites.

  • Acted as consulting materials engineer on many member company capital projects.

  • Acquired expertise in a wide range of engineering materials from thermoplastics and FRP to stainless steels and reactive alloys.

  • Published numerous technical articles and peer-reviewed papers.

  • Presented papers at conferences and to meetings of member company management.

1988-1991 Corrosion Specialist, RPC, New Brunswick, Canada

1987 – 1988 Research Associate, Research Associate National Research Council of Canada (NRC)

1987 Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)

Education

1987 PhD. Corrosion Science and Engineering, UMIST, Manchester UK

1985 MSc. Corrosion Science and Engineering, UMIST, Manchester UK

1984 BSc. (Hons) Materials Science, University of Bath, UK